Hi!, VITi95. Now I no longer find any problems in herkmar mode. Many thanks for a quick and well done job.

@Darmok Great to hear that!
@theelf New test executable, now it writes the MSCDEX initialization process into the file "fdoom.log" with all the steps done.

It should show something like this:

CD_Init CD_CdromInstalled: Alloc DOS MEM CD_CdromInstalled: Prepare registers CD_CdromInstalled: Call 0x2F IRQ CD_CdromInstalled […]
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CD_Init
CD_CdromInstalled: Alloc DOS MEM
CD_CdromInstalled: Prepare registers
CD_CdromInstalled: Call 0x2F IRQ
CD_CdromInstalled: MSCDEX OK, read configuration
CD_GetAudioInfo: Get AudioCD information
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_CdromInstalled OK
CD_Init: 23 AudioCD tracks
CD_Init: Cache AudioCD information
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_Init: Track 1, Begin 0, Length 33105
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_Init: Track 2, Begin 33105, Length 24109
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_Init: Track 3, Begin 57214, Length 7169
...

https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom/releases/d … oom_0.9.3a6.zip

ViTi95 wrote on 2023-01-16, 08:58:

@Darmok Great to hear that! @theelf New test executable, now it writes the MSCDEX initialization process into the file "fdoom.lo […]
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@Darmok Great to hear that!
@theelf New test executable, now it writes the MSCDEX initialization process into the file "fdoom.log" with all the steps done.

It should show something like this:

CD_Init CD_CdromInstalled: Alloc DOS MEM CD_CdromInstalled: Prepare registers CD_CdromInstalled: Call 0x2F IRQ CD_CdromInstalled […]
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CD_Init
CD_CdromInstalled: Alloc DOS MEM
CD_CdromInstalled: Prepare registers
CD_CdromInstalled: Call 0x2F IRQ
CD_CdromInstalled: MSCDEX OK, read configuration
CD_GetAudioInfo: Get AudioCD information
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_CdromInstalled OK
CD_Init: 23 AudioCD tracks
CD_Init: Cache AudioCD information
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_Init: Track 1, Begin 0, Length 33105
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_Init: Track 2, Begin 33105, Length 24109
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
CD_Init: Track 3, Begin 57214, Length 7169
...

https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom/releases/d … oom_0.9.3a6.zip

Hi!!! thanks a lot for your work, i just tested, and here is the logs

First time i run

1CD_Init
2CD_CdromInstalled: Alloc DOS MEM
3CD_CdromInstalled: Prepare registers
4CD_CdromInstalled: Call 0x2F IRQ
5CD_CdromInstalled: MSCDEX OK, read configuration
6CD_GetAudioInfo: Get AudioCD information
7CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
8CD_CdromInstalled OK
9CD_Init: 0 AudioCD tracks
10CD_Init: NO AudioCD tracks available
11CD_StopAudio
12CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
13CD_StopAudio
14CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
15CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request

second time

1CD_Init
2CD_CdromInstalled: Alloc DOS MEM
3CD_CdromInstalled: Prepare registers
4CD_CdromInstalled: Call 0x2F IRQ
5CD_CdromInstalled: MSCDEX OK, read configuration
6CD_GetAudioInfo: Get AudioCD information
7CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
8CD_CdromInstalled OK
9CD_Init: 0 AudioCD tracks
10CD_Init: NO AudioCD tracks available
11CD_StopAudio
12CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
13CD_StopAudio
14CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
15CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
16CD_Init
17CD_CdromInstalled: Alloc DOS MEM
18CD_CdromInstalled: Prepare registers
19CD_CdromInstalled: Call 0x2F IRQ
20CD_CdromInstalled: MSCDEX OK, read configuration
21CD_GetAudioInfo: Get AudioCD information
22CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
23CD_CdromInstalled OK
24CD_Init: 23 AudioCD tracks
25CD_Init: Cache AudioCD information
26CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
27CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
28CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
29CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
30CD_Init: Track 1, Begin 0, Length 7226
31CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
32CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
33CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
34CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
35CD_Init: Track 2, Begin 7226, Length 11595
36CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
37CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
38CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
39CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
40CD_Init: Track 3, Begin 18821, Length 20204
41CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
42CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
43CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
44CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
45CD_Init: Track 4, Begin 39025, Length 12729
46CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
47CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
48CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
49CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
50CD_Init: Track 5, Begin 51754, Length 12549
51CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
52CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
53CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
54CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
55CD_Init: Track 6, Begin 64303, Length 6344
56CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
57CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
58CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
59CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
60CD_Init: Track 7, Begin 70647, Length 11268

61CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
62CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
63CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
64CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
65CD_Init: Track 8, Begin 81915, Length 11354
66CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
67CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
68CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
69CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
70CD_Init: Track 9, Begin 93269, Length 10275
71CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
72CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
73CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
74CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
75CD_Init: Track 10, Begin 103544, Length 11389
76CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
77CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
78CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
79CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
80CD_Init: Track 11, Begin 114933, Length 11354
81CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
82CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
83CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
84CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
85CD_Init: Track 12, Begin 126287, Length 14724
86CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
87CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
88CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
89CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
90CD_Init: Track 13, Begin 141011, Length 18529
91CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
92CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
93CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
94CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
95CD_Init: Track 14, Begin 159540, Length 13072
96CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
97CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
98CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
99CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
100CD_Init: Track 15, Begin 172612, Length 7855
101CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
102CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
103CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
104CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
105CD_Init: Track 16, Begin 180467, Length 12753
106CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
107CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
108CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
109CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
110CD_Init: Track 17, Begin 193220, Length 14154
111CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
112CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
113CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
114CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
115CD_Init: Track 18, Begin 207374, Length 8709
116CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
117CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
118CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
119CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
120CD_Init: Track 19, Begin 216083, Length 8744
121CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
122CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
123CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
124CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
125CD_Init: Track 20, Begin 224827, Length 7138
126CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
127CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
128CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
129CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
130CD_Init: Track 21, Begin 231965, Length 1186
131CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
132CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
133CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
134CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
135CD_Init: Track 22, Begin 233151, Length 4869
136CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
137CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
138CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
139CD_Init: Track 23, Begin 238020, Length 14155
140CD_SetVolume 255
141CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
142CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
143CD_SetVolume 136
144CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
145CD_StopAudio
146CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
147CD_PlayAudio (231965, 1186)
148CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
149CD_StopAudio
150CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
151CD_StopAudio
152CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request
153CD_DeviceRequest: Execute MSCDEX request

Strange, The MSCDEX is working the first time but reports no AudioCD tracks available, and the second time it reports properly the number of tracks. Maybe there is some incompatibility with the VIDE-CDD driver as @Gmlb256 said, or maybe the driver needs some delay to properly initialize the drive (haven't seen any documentation about that).

ViTi95 wrote on 2023-01-16, 13:18:

Strange, The MSCDEX is working the first time but reports no AudioCD tracks available, and the second time it reports properly the number of tracks. Maybe there is some incompatibility with the VIDE-CDD driver as @Gmlb256 said, or maybe the driver needs some delay to properly initialize the drive (haven't seen any documentation about that).

Hi, same happen with other CD drivers i tested, not just VIDE, mitsumi, teac

Maybe a quick fix can be just fdoom do 2 or 3 cdinit to force start

I've uploaded another executable with an updated MSCDEX initializacion (similar to Hexen). Can you try it again?

https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom/releases/d … oom_0.9.3a7.zip

ViTi95 wrote on 2023-01-16, 14:33:

I've uploaded another executable with an updated MSCDEX initializacion (similar to Hexen). Can you try it again?

https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom/releases/d … oom_0.9.3a7.zip

This works perfect!

tested in 486 and Pentium 3

Time for a new release with everything solved! This is the changelog (FastDoom 0.9.3):

* AudioCD music support. Custom AudioCD mappings for (Ultimate) Doom, Doom II, TNT and Plutonia. (thanks @theelf for testing and the idea!)
* Fixed bugs on Hercules automap mode (thanks @darmok for testing)
* Small optimizations in rendering code

https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom/releases/d … tDoom_0.9.3.zip

For a test I quickly put together two Audio-CDs for DOOM and DOOM2, using the .oggs from www.perkristian.net (simply converted to WAV via VLC) and adding in the missing midi tracks via VLC's fluidsynth (also converted to WAV from .mid).

DOOM2 turns out a little over 80 minutes (with the mappings seen above) and I still need to verify if it truly plays the last track, but skipping through a few levels, it seems to work really good!

For someone without a Roland, wavetable add-on or GUS, this might be an easy and cheap solution to get great audio. And with the remakes from perkrisitan.net it's turning into a quite different and interesting new experience.

To put it short: I'm really enjoying this new sound feature!

ViTi95 wrote on 2023-01-16, 19:35:

Time for a new release with everything solved! This is the changelog (FastDoom 0.9.3): […]
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Time for a new release with everything solved! This is the changelog (FastDoom 0.9.3):

* AudioCD music support. Custom AudioCD mappings for (Ultimate) Doom, Doom II, TNT and Plutonia. (thanks @theelf for testing and the idea!)
* Fixed bugs on Hercules automap mode (thanks @darmok for testing)
* Small optimizations in rendering code

https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom/releases/d … tDoom_0.9.3.zip

Hi!!! thanks a lot!! sorry delay to answer, im not in home i still did not have the chance to test

For now i just tested in my pentium 2 laptop, is great!

I remade all musics using original midi and a big soudnfont, and is amazing the audio quality

Thanks a lot, i will test in my 486 as soon arrive home

MJay99 wrote on 2023-01-18, 00:43:

For someone without a Roland, wavetable add-on or GUS, this might be an easy and cheap solution to get great audio.

Yep, CD audio was the best option if the game supported it as back then, with the exception of the AWE and GUS sound cards, proper MPU-401 compatible MIDI devices were costly and hardly any regular consumer had them.

Glad to hear you like the new AudioCD feature! This is the best way of playing Doom if you don't own a Roland SC-55. I've created an AudioCD for Doom and another for Doom 2 using the audio captures of this website http://sc55.duke4.net/games.php#doom, the result is truly astounding.

By the way I'm thinking of creating an installer/launcher for FastDoom, do you know of any installer system for DOS that is customizable? The idea is to allow the user to copy only the required features or display more information like old game installers.

I am curious if there are video recording showcasing Hercules display support that once can watch now, e.g. on YouTube?

I have recorded two videos:

https://youtu.be/EEumutuyBBo

https://youtu.be/GBY1Ti_Q4Ac

Thank you. that's awesome 😀

It actually looks like the automap item you can pick up like that...

If you guys want something a little different for CD audio, check out Andrew Hulshult's album IDKFA. It's high quality metal covers of most of the Doom soundtrack. He's not some scrub either, he recently did the soundtrack for the Doom Eternal DLC "The Ancient Gods".

Today I installed a SBPro compatible sound card and decided to test it in Fdoom 0.9.3. As expected, the channels were reversed. I tried to run Fdoom -reverseStereo and did not find any difference, the channels are also reversed. Why is that?

Darmok wrote on 2023-01-20, 10:03:

Today I installed a SBPro compatible sound card and decided to test it in Fdoom 0.9.3. As expected, the channels were reversed. I tried to run Fdoom -reverseStereo and did not find any difference, the channels are also reversed. Why is that?

A question to help testing... you are talking about... stereo? i believe doom is mono...

I have a 386 with a SB pro too, i can test

FDoom's OPL3 music is definitely NOT mono (on SB Pro and SB 16) since v0.7

https://github.com/viti95/fastdoom/wiki/changelog

0.7 (3 Dec 2020) Added Stereo OPL2, OPL3 and Stereo OPL3 music support (Adlib uses basic OPL2, Sound Blaster tries to detect the […]
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0.7 (3 Dec 2020)
Added Stereo OPL2, OPL3 and Stereo OPL3 music support (Adlib uses basic OPL2, Sound Blaster tries to detect the best possible option)
Added Disney Sound Source (also Tandy Sound Source) sound support. You have to manually set "snd_sfxdevice" variable in the "default.cfg" file to 12 (Disney Sound Source) or 13 (Tandy Sound Source). There are three new command line options to force the parallel port in case auto-initialization process doesn't work ("-LPT1" -> port 3bc, "-LPT2" -> port 378, "-LPT3" -> port 278). COVOX / LPT DAC is not supported.
Fixed Gravis Ultrasound music support
Added profiling support in the makefile (Intel Pentium processor required)
Added option that forces 8 bit audio mixing instead of 16 bit (-8bitsound)
Fixed potato invisible column renderer (issue #2)
Fixed chainsaw incorrect behaviour (issue #9)
Fixed all items respawn when loading a savegame (issue #10)
Fixed Arch-Vile fire spawned at the wrong location (original Vanilla Doom blatant error)
Fixed Chaingun makes two sounds firing single bullet (another Vanilla Doom error, fixed as there is no multiplayer support)
Fixed invulnerability sky colormap
Fixed issue #14
Fixed issue #16
Fixed some command line parameters not working as expected
Removed IDMYPOS cheat
Added VSYNC support (-vsync)
Added new command line parameters that disable some optimizations (bypassing the saved configuration, made for benchmarking): -normalsurfaces, -normalsky, -normalshadows, -normalsprites, -stereo, -melt, -capped, -novsync, -nofps.
All new options finally are saved in default.cfg
As always added more optimizations (mostly ASM optimized multiplications, divisions and modulo, faster screen melting code, faster cheats detection, optimized sound code, faster potato mode [thanks @Optimus6128 !!], faster melting screen, faster flat drawing functions)

Also, which SB Pro compatible card are we talking about?